Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Matthew: Chapter 28].
church (sermon, Sunday school, young people's work,
prayer-meeting, study classes, mission classes), to the school
(not mixing of church and state, but moral instruction if not the
reading of the Bible), good books which should be in every home,
reading of the Bible itself. Some react too far and actually put
education in the place of conversion or regeneration. That is to
miss the mark. But teaching is part, a weighty part, of the work
of Christians.
{I am with you} (\eg• meta hum•n\). This is the amazing and
blessed promise. He is to be with the disciples when he is gone,
with all the disciples, with all knowledge, with all power, with
them all the days (all sorts of days, weakness, sorrows, joy,
power), till the consummation of the age (\he•s t•s sunteleias
tou ai•nos\). That goal is in the future and unknown to the
disciples. This blessed hope is not designed as a sedative to an
inactive mind and complacent conscience, but an incentive to the
fullest endeavor to press on to the farthest limits of the world
that all the nations may know Christ and the power of his Risen
Life. So Matthew's Gospel closes in a blaze of glory. Christ is
conqueror in prospect and in fact. Christian history from that
eventful experience on the Mountain in Galilee has been the
fulfilment of that promise in as far as we allow God's power to
work in us for the winning of the world to Christ, the Risen, all
powerful Redeemer, who is with his people all the time. Jesus
employs the prophetic present here (\eimi\, I am). He is with us
all the days till he comes in glory.
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(Matthew: Chapter 28)